Application of Membrane Capacitive Deionization as Pretreatment Strategy for Enhancing Salinity Gradient Power Generation by Seoyeon Lee, Juyoung Lee, Jaehyun Ju, Hyeongrak Cho, Yongjun Choi, Sangho Lee

“…The results demonstrated that MCDI attained removal efficiencies of up to 88.8% for organic substances and 78.8% for inorganic substances. …”
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Multi-Temporal Energy Management Strategy for Fuel Cell Ships Considering Power Source Lifespan Decay Synergy by Xingwei Zhou, Xiangguo Yang, Mengni Zhou, Lin Liu, Song Niu, Chaobin Zhou, Yufan Wang

“…The study designs an attention-based CNN-LSTM hybrid model for power prediction and constructs a two-stage optimization framework: The first stage employs Model Predictive Control (MPC) for long-term power planning to optimize equivalent hydrogen consumption, while the second stage focuses on real-time power allocation considering both power source degradation and system operational efficiency. The simulation results demonstrate that compared to single-layer MPC and the Equivalent Consumption Minimization Strategy (ECMS), the proposed method exhibits significant advantages in reducing single-voyage costs, minimizing differences in power source degradation rates, and alleviating power source stress. …”
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Nanoconfinement Engineering of Covalent Organic Frameworks in Polyamide Membranes for High‐Perselectivity Li+/Mg2+ Separation by Shuzhen Zhao, Liheng Dai, Zhaohuan Mai, Bowen Li, Pengfei Zhang, Mengxiao Zhang, Atsushi Matsuoka, Kecheng Guan, Ryosuke Takagi, Hideto Matsuyama

“…Abstract Efficiently separating Li+ over Mg2+ from brines remains a significant challenge due to their minimal size difference of only several angstroms, posing a substantial difficulty for traditional nanofiltration (NF) membranes. …”
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Femtosecond Pulse Compression With Pedestal Suppression in a Sagnac Interferometer Constructed of Anti-Resonant Hollow Core Fiber by Taoying Yu, Xuesong Liu, Andrey Pryamikov, Alexey Kosolapov, Zhongwei Fan

“…By varying the types and pressures of gas filled in the hollow core fiber, the group velocity dispersion and the nonlinear pulse phase accumulation difference between clockwise and counterclockwise propagations could be tuned conveniently. …”
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Computational complexity, algorithmic scope, and evolution by Leonhard Sidl, Maximilian Faissner, Manuel Uhlir, Cristian A Velandia-Huerto, Maria Waldl, Hua-Ting Yao, Ivo L Hofacker, Peter F Stadler

“…Here we explore the idea that evolution confines biological computation to subsets of instances that can be solved efficiently with algorithms that are ‘hardcoded’ in the system itself. …”
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Techniques and actions to promote domestic agri-food products on foreign markets by BURBULEA Rodica, MOROI Elena

“…On international markets, it is often difficult to coordinate the promotion strategy with the other marketing strategies due to the high degree of variability of promotion tools and because, however, culture, customs and language differences also complicate the promotion activity. …”
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Identification of Sound Power Levels and Surface Absorption Coefficients in Multi-Source Industrial Buildings by Using a Simplified Diffusion Model by Martín E. SEQUEIRA, Víctor H. CORTÍNEZ

“…Numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the proposed approach.…”
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Calculation Methods for the Permeability Coefficient of Concrete Face Rockfill Dam with Cracks by Zhongwen Shi, Zhongru Wu, Chongshi Gu, Bo Chen, Hailong Zhang, Wenzhong Yin, Bangbin Wu

“…Comparison of the permeability coefficients produced from the two methods showed minimal difference. On this basis, the seepage field of the dam was analyzed. …”
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Comprehensive Study of Shape of Channels Filled with Porous Materials in Streaming Potential Cells by Ryota KIRINO, Suguru IWAI, Kosuke SATO, Elena VILLANI, George HASEGAWA, Shinsuke INAGI

“…Additionally, the energy conversion efficiency of streaming potential generation using a cell based on this channel was elucidated.…”
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Center Symmetric Local Multilevel Pattern Based Descriptor and Its Application in Image Matching by Hui Zeng, Xiuqing Wang, Yu Gu

“…The CS-LMP operator has no exponential computations, so the CS-LMP descriptor can encode the differences of the local intensity values using multiply quantization levels without increasing the dimension of the descriptor. …”
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Discrete Optimization of Transmission Ratio of Two-speed AMT for Electric Vehicle by Zhu Yongqi, Huang Kang

“…The transmission ratios optimized by traditional optimization method often have a difference from the actual values decided by gear teeth matching. …”
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Les familles immigrées aux marges de l’école. Dépendance et mobilisation des parents dans le contexte d’un quartier populaire by Pierre Périer

“…While these families have high aspirations for their children, they do not have the competences required in order to tackle efficiently schooling issues, including the relationship to build with the school staff. …”
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Paddy field quality and precision agriculture at moderate scale by LIU Xing-mei, ZHANG Wei-wen

“…Its particular cultivation fashion and growing condition make the variation of paddy soil differ from that of other soil. Besides of putting new insight into precision agricultural management, understanding the spatial distribution of soil nutrients is necessary for increasing the efficiency of applied fertilizers and decreasing the water pollution caused by the downward movement of unused fertilizer in the overfertilized area.…”
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Node selection based on label quantity information in federated learning by Jiahua MA, Xinghua SUN, Wenchao XIA, Xijun WANG, Hongzhou TAN, Hongbo ZHU

“…Aiming at the problem that the difference of node data distribution has adverse effect on the performance of federated learning algorithm, a node selection algorithm based on label quantity information was proposed.An optimization objective based on the label quantity information of nodes was designed, considering the optimization problem of selecting the nodes with balanced label distribution under a certain time consumption limit.According to the correlation between the aggregated label distribution of selected nodes and the convergence of the global model, the upper bound of the weight divergence of the global model was reduced to improve the convergence stability of the algorithm.Simulation results shows that the new algorithm had higher convergence efficiency than the existing node selection algorithm.…”
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Information Encryption Algorithm Using a Discrete Quantum Map by A. V. Sidorenko, E. A. Vysotskaya

“…To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, testing was carried out on three encrypted images that differed in the volume of transmitted information. …”
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Photostability Study of Some Modified Poly(vinyl chloride) Containing Pendant Schiff’s Bases by Baghdad Science Journal

“…The polymers modified Poly(vinyl chloride) differ in their tendency to photo oxidation comparing with that unmodified. …”
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How Has Land Restriction Policy Influenced Green Total Factor Productivity? Evidence from Chinese Cities by Shengyan Xu, Miao Liu, Ping Hua, Yibo Chen

“…We formulated our hypotheses based on theoretical analysis. We used the difference-in-differences method and the data from prefecture-level cities from 1999 to 2017 for verification. …”
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Application Research of Semi-coke Blending on a 600MW Anthracite "W" Flame Boiler by Guangwei CHEN, Jianping HUANG, Pengzhi XU

“…When the difference between semi-coke and coal is less than 220 yuan/ton, the blending semi-coke has profit, and the smaller the difference, the greater the profit.…”
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Evaluating the Influence of Topographic and Process Representation on Runoff and River Flow in Small‐Valley Scenarios Using a Coupled Rainfall–Runoff–Inundation and River‐Flow Mode... by Takehiko Ito, Jin Kashiwada, Yasuo Nihei

“…ABSTRACT In Chiba Prefecture, Japan, there are numerous yatsu valleys topographies that have local elevation differences that greatly affect the rainfall‐runoff process. …”
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Investigation on the Interactions of NiCR and NiCR-2H with DNA by Priyanka Chitranshi, Chang-Nan Chen, Patrick R. Jones, Jesika S. Faridi, Liang Xue

“…We report here a biophysical and biochemical approach to determine the differences in interactions of NiCR and NiCR-2H with DNA. …”
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